Sokrates a etyka biznesu (Rozważania o etycznych źródłach

Sokrates a etyka biznesu (Rozważania o etycznych źródłach odpowiedzialności)
Autor: Ewa Podrez
Artykuł opublikowany w „Annales. Etyka w życiu gospodarczym” 2008, vol. 11, nr 1, s. 55-63
Archidiecezjalne Wydawnictwo Łódzkie
Stable URL: http://www.annalesonline.uni.lodz.pl/archiwum/2008/2008_01_podrez_55_63.pdf
Socrates and Business Ethics (Considerations on the Ethical Origins of Responsibility)
Author: Ewa Podrez
Source: ‘Annales. Ethics in Economic Life’ 2008, vol. 11, nr 1, pp. 55-63
Published by Lodz Archdiocesan Press
Stable URL: http://www.annalesonline.uni.lodz.pl/archiwum/2008/2008_01_podrez_55_63.pdf
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Ewa Podrez
Uniwersytet Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego, Warszawa
e-mail: [email protected]
Socrates and Business Ethics
(Considerations on the Ethical Origins of Responsibility)
The presented work attempts to show a link between business and global responsibility with
the Socratic idea of self-knowledge.
The today’s ethics discusses the fundamental issues of the man’s place in the world. The human
existence is one of the causes of the contemporary crisis. This crisis between man and the world obliges us
to raise a radical question of the ethical origins of individual and global responsibility for the quality of life,
including also the future human generations. This question requires going back to the historical and ethical
considerations about the Socratic project of good life. The starting point for the Socratic ethics is an interpersonal and inner-personal dialogue; the subsequent result of that is man’s practical wisdom of how to
build his own life together with others. Socrates argues that the key issue of responsibility is awakening
of self-awareness and the way to achieve this objective is dialogue.
Key words: business ethics, Socrates, responsibility, self-knowledge